The debate on accession to the World Trade Organization is overdramatized in Russia. The heat of the discussion is surprising: after all, the entry into the WTO is fully in line with the logic of Russia’s development over the past decade.
The debate on accession to the World Trade Organization is overdramatized in Russia. The heat of the discussion is surprising: after all, the entry into the WTO is fully in line with the logic of Russia’s development over the past decade.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.